mad - Story 87405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable." Finn’s voice was a low growl. His sister, Maya, had practically ignored their grandmother for years. Now, suddenly, she wanted a share? He slammed his fist on the kitchen table, making the china teacups rattle.

He ripped open the fridge, scanning its empty shelves with a glare. He wanted to eat, to consume something, anything, to fill the gaping hole of frustration. Everything here reminded him of her. The house, the memories, the unfairness.

He kicked at the leg of a chair, the wood splintering under the impact. He felt an urge to just destroy something.

Emotion: mad

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.94 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.26

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion mad. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 mad stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the mad emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the mad vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.448
`骂`	0.344
`est`	0.340
`🤬`	0.336
`aggravated`	0.332

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.495
`de`	-0.485
`la`	-0.387
`H`	-0.344
`latter`	-0.290